We've been living with the current generation of systems for years now, and while Nintendo is showing off its next big thing at E3, ...

While the multiplayer section of the PlayStation Network may be operational, the store is still down, and Sony has been hesitant about sharing details ...

Sony has released a revised forecast for the now-finished fiscal year, noting that the company is expected to post a $3.1 billion loss, instead ...

mcgrew tips news that security firm F-secure has found a live phishing site running on Sony's Thailand servers. "Basically this means that Sony has been hacked, again. Although in this case the server is probably not very important." This comes ...

With Anonymous Denial of Service attacks and then the twin hacks of PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment, Sony's online infrastructure has been taking ...

While it was only a mater of time when the Playstation Store would be coming back after the recent revival of PSN. Details indicates that the date will be next week, May 24th. And it’s not just one update folks, ...

RdeCourtney writes "The PlayStation Network is down again. Sony had originally enabled passwords to be reset onscreen simply by entering an email address and date of birth. Whoever has the data from Sony, could, in theory, then reset any of ...

After 26 days of downtime, Sony has announced that the PlayStation Network is up and running once again. After customers apply mandatory security patch ...

The nightmare that was of not playing Portal 2′s online co-op or ripping other gamers body parts off in Mortal Kombat is over because Playstation Network is slowly but surely coming back. The recent firmware update, 3.61, has been released ...

Sonny Yatsen writes "Sony has released the PS3 3.61 firmware update as a part of the phased return of the Playstation Network and Qriocity. The new update now requires all PSN users to change their passwords in order to sign ...

donniebaseball23 writes "As the PlayStation Network outage continues, developers are feeling the economic pinch. There's been no word from Sony on whether they'll compensate companies who produce games for PSN, but Capcom has already said it's losing potentially 'millions' from ...

The PlayStation Network is still down, and Sony isn't giving the press or customers any idea of when we can expect to play online. ...

Sony is busy filming the Spider-Man reboot, of course, and I think most of us are on the same page when I sawywe're tentatively looking forward to it, at least more than when it was originally announced. However, a new ...

It's now Monday, the week after Sony told us to expect some functionality to return to the PlayStation Network. Sadly, that has not happened: ...

Stoobalou writes "Civil war appears to have broken out in the ranks of headless 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous, with claims that a rogue admin has seized control of two key sites used to coordinate the loose-knit group's online direct action. The ...

It all began when a young man named George Hotz began to work on the PlayStation 3, trying to gain access to the machine ...

Today is Friday, and the PlayStation Network has yet to be restored, not even to limited functionality. Sony has given us a flurry of ...

ewhenn writes "Security experts monitoring open Internet forums learned months ago that Sony was using outdated versions of the Apache Web server software, which "was unpatched and had no firewall installed." The issue was "reported in an open forum monitored ...

The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade asked Sony to testify at a hearing called "The Threat of Data Theft to American Consumers," ...

An anonymous reader writes with an update to yesterday morning's news that Sony Online Entertainment's game service was taken offline to investigate a potential data breach related to the PSN intrusion. SOE has now said that they too suffered a ...

Patrick Seybold is the senior director of corporate communications and social media for Sony Computer Entertainment of America. Right now, he's got a tough ...

Stoobalou writes "Soon-to-be-celebrity hacker and thorn in Sony's side George 'Geohot' Hotz has denied any involvement in the ongoing breach at the PlayStation Network. The 21-year-old hacker — who is best known for creating the first software-based hack for the ...

Sony has announced the bad news: hackers have your personal data, and they may have your credit card information as well. Now it's time ...

Sony has finally come clean about the "external intrusion" that has caused the company to take down the PlayStation Network service, and the news ...

So tomorrow (April 27th) will mark one week since the Playstation Network was brought down after an attack on the system last Wednesday, April 20th. Sony reports the network will remain down indefinitely as they rebuild the system from ...

Sony isn't saying much about the PlayStation Network outage, but a new update doesn't give us much hope for a speedy resolution. Even worse ...

With both Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat released this week, and Steam's much-hyped integration with the PlayStation 3, it is a very bad time ...

Sony's PSP Go launched in late 2009 to mixed reviews and tepid sales. A little over a year later, Sony announced the portable console's successor, the NGP, leading to speculation about how long the PSP Go would last. Now, a ...

The legal action between Sony and George Hotz is over, and many have asked what would be done with the ...

Valve has previously announced that the PS3 will get Steam along with a version of Portal 2, and that the PlayStation 3 version of ...

The legal action between Sony and George Hotz has come to a close, with both sides seemingly happy with the results. Sony has Hotz ...

"Say you're a hacker trying to cripple a major electronics company for suing its own users: how do you launch a cyberattack without harming the people you're trying to protect? In the case of hactivist group 'Anonymous,' which has spent ...

The hacker collective Anonymous has attacked Sony websites all week, taking them down intermittently in retaliation for Sony's federal lawsuit against PlayStation 3 hacker ...

RedEaredSlider writes "The hacker collective Anonymous has made good on its threat to attack Sony, having launched a distributed denial-of-service attack on Wednesday afternoon. The attack is revenge for the legal action taken against another hacker who modified a PlayStation ...

Sony may be forced to postpone the release of its new PlayStation portable, codenamed NGP, until next year due to production disruptions resulting from ...